Though freedom of information laws grant the general public rights to access government information, many citizens do not know how to use them and often journalist act as intermediaries between the…
The Danish legislation amended the Act on Public Access on Documents in Administrative Files to bring Danish law in line with the information access provisions of the UNECE Aarhus Convention. The…
On 8 September 1999, the Danish EPA held a conference concerning the Aarhus Convention about citizens' environmental rights. Danish legislation in this field is good but there is room for…
The Italian language version of the mandated report on national implementation of the Convention will be presented at the second Meeting of the Parties to the Convention, in May 2005. A translation…
In February 2005, the government of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost prefecture, proposed an ordinance to control the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops. The ordinance aims to prevent…
This website aims to answer to the most frequently asked questions about GMO. It also allows users to consult different themes, access French and international regulations, and learn about on-going…
The authors of this book try to achieve two goals. On the one hand, to provide for a detailed and useful overview of EC and Member State legislation in the field of access to information. On the…
The Walloon regional report on implementation of the Convention is one of the four different reports, drafted by the Federal Authority and the three Regions, constituting the Belgian national report.
The website of Greenpeace-Italia dedicated to GMO contains a glossary, the answers to the most frequently asked questions and some references to the existing legislation in Europe. In Italian.
The REC, in partnership with the Guardian Foundation (UK), invites applications for "Environment in the News", a training workshop for environmental journalists to take place on May 25 - 29…
